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The Costs and Benefits of Positive Illusions [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Positive illusions are associated with unrealistic optimism about the future and an inflated assessment of one's abilities. They are prevalent in normal life and are considered essential for maintaining a healthy mental state, although, there are ...
Spyros eMakridakis
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Costs and Benefits of Speculation [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 We quantify the effects of financial regulation in an equilibrium model with delegated portfolio management. Fund managers trade stocks and bonds in an order-driven market, subject to transaction taxes and constraints on short-selling and leverage. Results are obtained on the equilibrium properties of portfolio choice, trading activity, market quality ...
Lensberg, Terje +2 more
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The Impact of the Dodd-Frank Act on Financial Stability and Economic Growth
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2017 This article assesses the benefits and costs of key provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act that strengthened regulation following the financial crisis. The provisions are placed into five groupings: clear wins, clear losses, costly tradeoffs, unfinished ...
Martin Neil Baily +2 more
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Conservation Science and Practice, 2023 Understanding the local communities' attitudes toward protected areas (PAs) is critical to PA management planning. However, what socio‐economic and demographic factors drive their attitude remains poorly studied.
Kabindra Shahi +4 more
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Road safety audit †possibility to avoid a dangerous road section
Transport, 2005 The number of road traffic casualties is still very high, even though the number of fatalities in European countries is falling. In road traffic accidents involving personal injury, economic resources are destroyed and the productivity of economy is ...
Alvydas Pikūnas, Vidmantas Pumputis
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Costs and benefits of awns [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Botany, 2016 Awns, which are derived from floral structures in grasses, are known to be critically important for photosynthesis and transpiration. However, arguments about the costs and benefits of their growth and development for crop grain yield are still ongoing. In this issue of Journal of Experimental Botany (pages 2573–2586), Rebetzke et al.
Guo, Zifeng, Schnurbusch, Thorsten
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Agronomía Colombiana, 2023 Strategies to overcome the sugarcane crisis in recent years are based on technological improvements in production, product diversification, exports, associativity and organic production.
Ruth Mary Ibarra Guevara +2 more
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The Costs and Benefits of Reinsurance [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 Purchasing reinsurance reduces insurers’ insolvency risk by stabilising loss experience, increasing capacity, limiting liability on specific risks and/or protecting against catastrophes. Consequently, purchasing reinsurance should reduce capital costs. However, transferring risk to reinsurers is expensive.
J. David Cummins +3 more
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The Costs and Benefits of Kindness
The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2022 What is kindness, and what makes an act kind? Previous research has suggested that the kindness of an act depends on the benefit provided to the recipient, the cost to the actor, and the ratio of cost to benefit. Here we conduct two studies to investigate the relationship between the benefit, cost, cost-benefit ratio and the kindness of a large sample ...
Oliver Scott Curry +3 more
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Information Portal Costs and Benefits [PDF]
Informatică economică, 2006 All transformations of our society are the product of the large use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) and Internet. ICT are technologies which facilitate communication, processing, and transmission of information by electronic means ...
Lorena BATAGAN
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